A MORE CHEERFUL VIEW OF FLAX.
,A gentleman who is greatly interested, in tho flax industry, and who, when visiting tho Old Country and the United States, studied tho hemp market, expressed the: opinion to our Shannon ! correspondent that manufacturers 1 abroad could no more do without the New Zealand/ product than .they could do without Manila. A great quantity of socalled Manila rope contains 20 -per cent, of phormium tenax in its composition, as ..the presenco'of our fibre gives the; rope greater pliability. A. larger percentage would be employed were the colour' of New Zealand hemp better. Sovcral manufacturers in tho United States' informed tbi3;gentloman- that Manila was so' hard ;that_ it-very soon, woro 'out chaff-cutting machines, and, when cut up among thoi chaff, the/-fragments;; being very brittle, very frequently injured the throats of horses. - '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 2
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136A MORE CHEERFUL VIEW OF FLAX. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 2
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